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Agro-Students' Appraisal of Online Registration of Academic Courses in the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Ogun State Nigeria
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Lawal-Adebowale, O. A.; Oyekunle, O. – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2014
With integration of information technology tool for academic course registration in the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, the study assessed the agro-students' appraisal of the online tool for course registration. A simple random sampling technique was used to select 325 agrostudents; and validated and reliable questionnaire was used…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Information Technology, Management Systems
Medical Students' Personal Knowledge, Searching Proficiency, and Database Use in Problem Solving.
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Wildemuth, Barbara M.; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1995
Discusses the relationship between personal knowledge in a domain and online searching proficiency in that domain, and the relationship between searching proficiency and database-assisted problem-solving performance based on a study of medical students. Search results, selection of terms, and efficiency were found to be related to problem-solving…
Descriptors: Correlation, Databases, Information Retrieval, Medical Education
Post-Processing of Bibliographic Citations from DOE/RECON, NASA/RECON, and DOD/DROLS.
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Bollinger, William A.; And Others – 1984
An interactive, self-guided program for the joint post-processing of bibliographic citations from the federal information centers of the Department of Energy (DOE), the Department of Defense (DOD), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is described. The program, presently installed on the Intelligent Gateway Processor of the…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Coupling, Citation Indexes, Citations (References), Computer Software
Validation of the Repertory Grid for Use in Modeling Knowledge.
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Latta, Gail F.; Swigger, Keith – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1992
Discusses the application of theories of cognitive modeling to information systems design and describes research that investigated the validity of the repertory grid for incorporation into intelligent front-end interfaces for information storage and retrieval systems. Personal construct theory is discussed and future research is suggested. (67…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Computer System Design, Correlation, Databases
Semi-Automatic Determination of Citation Relevancy: User Evaluation.
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Huffman, G. David – Information Processing and Management, 1990
Discussion of online bibliographic database searches focuses on a software system, SORT-AID/SABRE, that ranks retrieved citations in terms of relevance. Results of a comprehensive user evaluation of the relevance ranking procedure to determine its effectiveness are presented, and implications for future work are suggested. (10 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Citations (References), Computer Software, Correlation
End-User Studies in CD-ROM Environment: Work in Progress.
Balaraman, Kamala – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1991
Describes preliminary results of a study that examined the effect of individual differences on the use of CD-ROM databases by novice undergraduate users. Factors considered include age, sex, native language, major, computer literacy, computer affinity, personality traits, learning style, visual ability, and perceived usefulness of the system. A…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Correlation, Databases, Higher Education